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\nExodus 12:1<\/b>\u00a0<\/a><\/span>\u00a0The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, \u00a0\u201cThis month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year for you. \u00a0Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household. \u00a0And if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his nearest neighbor shall take according to the number of persons; according to what each can eat you shall make your count for the lamb. \u00a0Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats, \u00a0and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs at twilight. \u201cThen they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which\u00a0 <\/span>they eat it. \u00a0They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it. Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but roasted, its head with its legs and its inner parts. \u00a0And you shall let none of it remain until the morning; anything that remains until the morning you shall burn. \u00a0In this manner you shall eat it: with your belt fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. It is the LORD’s Passover.\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the LORD. \u00a0The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt. \u00a0\u201cThis day shall be for you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to the LORD; throughout your generations, as a statute forever, you shall keep it as a feast.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Clearly, the first purpose was that the blood might be sprinkled on the door-posts and lintels, and so the house be safe when the destroying angel passed through the land. Such is the explanation given in\u00a0Exodus 12:13<\/span><\/a>, which is the divine declaration of its meaning. This is the centre of the rite; from it the name was derived. Whether readers accept the doctrines of substitution and expiation or not, it ought to be impossible for an honest reader of these verses to deny that these doctrines or thoughts are there. They may be only the barbarous notions of a half-savage age and people. But, whatever they are, there they are. The lamb without blemish carefully chosen and kept for four days, till it had become as it were part of the household, and then solemnly slain by the head of the family, was their representative. When they sprinkled its blood on the posts, they confessed that they stood in peril of the destroying angel by reason of their impurity, and they presented the blood as their expiation. In so far, their act was an act of confession, deprecation, and faith. It accepted the divinely appointed means of safety. But clearly their obedience to the command implied a measure of belief in the divine voice; and the command embodied, though in application to a transient judgment, the broad principles of sacrificial substitution, of expiation by blood, and of safety by the individual application of that shed blood. In other words, the Passover is a Gospel before the Gospel. Is its chief purpose to prophesy of Christ, His atoning death, His kingdom and church, or is it not? John the Baptist\u2019s rapturous exclamation, \u2018Behold the Lamb of God!\u2019 blends allusions to the Passover, the daily sacrifice, and Isaiah\u2019s great prophecy.<\/p>\n
The manner of preparing the feast and the manner of partaking of it are both significant. The former provided that the lamb should be roasted, not boiled, apparently in order to secure its being kept whole; and the same purpose suggested the other prescriptions that it was to be served up entire, and with bones unbroken. The reason for this seems to be that thus the unity of the partakers was more plainly shown. All ate of one undivided whole, and were thus, in a real sense, one.<\/p>\n
The Passover as a feast is a prophecy of the great Sacrifice, by virtue of whose sprinkled blood we all may be sheltered from the sweep of the divine judgment, and on which we all have to feed if there is to be any life in us. Our propitiation is our food. \u2018Christ for us\u2019 must become \u2018Christ in us,\u2019 received and appropriated by our faith as the strength of our lives. The Christian life is meant to be a joyful feast on the Sacrifice, and communion with God based upon it. We feast on Christ when the mind feeds on Him as truth, when the heart is filled and satisfied with His love, when the conscience clings to Him as its peace, when the will esteems the \u2018words of His mouth more than\u2019 its \u2018necessary food,\u2019 when all desires, hopes, and inward powers draw their supplies from Him, and find their object in His sweet sufficiency. (MacLaren)<\/p>\n
The Lord makes all things new to those whom he delivers from the bondage of Satan, and takes to himself to be his people. The time when he does this is to them the beginning of a new life.\u00a0The blood of Christ is the believer’s protection from the wrath of God, the curse of the law, and the damnation of hell. We must feed upon Christ with sorrow and brokenness of heart, in remembrance of sin. Christ will be sweet to us, if sin be bitter. (Henry)<\/p>\n
To be warned of impending death and disregard it is foolish. To be warned of impending death and given instructions of salvation from it and to not follow the instructions is foolish. Trying to make other provisions for safety from the impending death other than the instructions given is foolish. No one knows the time death will be at their doorstep and open the door and take them into eternity. What would you do right now if today you heard and believed it to be true; \u201cTomorrow death will take you from this world into eternity?\u201d Would there be any urgency to be made right with God? Would you repent and seek forgiveness and salvation through faith, trust, belief, and reliance in\/on Jesus Christ? If one could agree that being warned of death and being found lacking in the eyes of God and disregarding this warning is foolish, why would you pass up this opportunity to be saved? You know not the day, hour, or minute when death will take you into eternity. Imagine that someone knows you will die and face judgment resulting in eternal Hell and tells you that they love you so much that they have provided a way for your eternal life and that all the things you have done in the past that resulted in your judgment into eternal Hell could be forgiven resulting in eternal life. Would you listen? Would you follow their instruction? Would you believe, trust, rely on, and obey what they told you? Would you laugh it off, disregard it, deny you heard it, or try to find another way?\u00a0 The day of salvation is Now. There is no other way to be saved than through Jesus Christ.<\/span><\/p>\n
Read this provision, instruction, and warning carefully:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
John 3:16-21\u00a0 <\/span>\u201c\u00a0For God so loved\u00a0the world that he gave\u00a0his one and only Son,\u00a0that whoever believes\u00a0in him shall not perish but have eternal life.\u00a017\u00a0For God did not send his Son into the world\u00a0to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.\u00a018\u00a0Whoever believes in him is not condemned,\u00a0but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God\u2019s one and only Son.\u00a019\u00a0This is the verdict: Light\u00a0has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.\u00a020\u00a0Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed.\u00a021\u00a0But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n
Rev. 22:7 And behold, I am coming\u00a0quickly. Blessed is he who heeds the words of the prophecy of this book.\u201d
\nRev. 22:12 \u201cBehold, I am coming\u00a0quickly, and My reward\u00a0is\u00a0with Me, to reward each one as his work deserves.\u201d
\nRev. 22:20 He who testifies to these things says,\u00a0\u201cYes, I am coming\u00a0quickly.\u201d\u00a0Amen. Come, Lord Jesus<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Exodus 12:1\u00a0\u00a0The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, \u00a0\u201cThis month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year for you. \u00a0Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb … Continue reading “42.b. “Let My People Go” – 10.a. Death and Passover Preparation”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5417,16430,16432,1059,9480,1555,16434,4936,463,796,14635,219,14637,16435,16433,16431,4968],"class_list":["post-162652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-aaron","tag-blood-and-put-it-on-the-door-posts-and-header","tag-eat-it-in-haste","tag-egypt","tag-execute-judgment","tag-feast","tag-i-will-strike-all-of-the-firstborn","tag-israel","tag-lamb","tag-lord","tag-memorial-day","tag-moses","tag-statute-forever","tag-the-blood-shall-be-a-sign","tag-the-lords-passover","tag-unleavened-bread","tag-without-blemish"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162652"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162719,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162652\/revisions\/162719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}